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NCAA student-athletes representing Indiana colleges and universities will participate in a community outreach initiative and celebrate their peers as part of National Student-Athlete Day Tuesday, March 31 at the NCAA national office in Indianapolis.

"The NCAA national office and our members are deeply committed to providing an inclusive environment for all our events. We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees. We will work...

NCAA and Turner Live Events announced additions to the impressive music lineup at the 2015 NCAA® March Madness® Music Festival™ in conjunction with the 2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four®. The free, three-day music festival will be held at White River State Park in Indianapolis, IN and is produced by Turner Live Events.

The stage and podium in Christine Grant Ballroom in the NCAA national office wouldn’t suffice for Meg Stevens. She was to deliver the keynote for the 2015 NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar and wanted to be at eye level with the some 220 aspiring athletics administrators. She chose to stay off the stage, and hit the floor.

All it took was a change of mentality to bring Columbia University-Barnard College’s fencing program back to its former glory as the Lions earned their first national championship since 1993 – a 22-year drought.

Longtime NCAA executive David Berst will retire from the Association this summer. Kevin Lennon, currently vice president for academic and membership affairs, will become the new vice president for Division I governance on Monday, April 6.

The women felt a jolt of rejuvenation upon the sight of each other. It was the fifth and final day of the bowling U.S. Team Trials, the last step toward qualification for Junior Team USA. The two bowlers’ deep familiarity with each other gave them a subtle, unspoken confidence.

For the first time since 2007, the University of Colorado finished the NCAA Skiing Championships without an individual champion. However, that didn’t stop the Buffaloes from producing a supreme group effort as the team captured its 20th national championship overall and eighth NCAA title since the sport went coed in 1983.

Dominique Scott’s time of 8 minutes, 55.19 seconds earned top honors in the 3,000 meters and boosted her University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, team to victory in the Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships. She celebrated it with her South African parents, who watched their daughter compete indoors in college for the first time.

Eric Jenkins, Edward Cheserek and Will Geoghegan finished first, second and third, respectively, in the 3,000 meters to lead the University of Oregon to its second consecutive national indoor championship.

March 30, 2015 Directors of Athletics --- Derek van der Merwe , who has served as Austin Peay’s athletics director for the past year and a half, will step down from that post after being named the university's vice president for...

Only last year’s West Virginia rifle team was more accurate than this spring’s Mountaineers, who came just three points short of matching their championship-record performance in 2014. And they needed every one of them.

Inside a squat brown brick building in a suburban neighborhood in the middle of America, 17 travel consultants – most of them wearing telephone headsets, peering into multiple computer screens and tapping on keyboards – worked into the early hours of Monday morning booking dozens of plane flights that will move teams into position for the first stops of competition in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

The Division I Council is seeking nominations from conference offices for people to serve on the seven committees the Council created to do the work of the division. Nominations are due to the NCAA national office by April 9.